Started using Illustrator in a "pixel perfect" mode. Drew the smaller scale then scaled it 200% and started to add detail. Various reference material used for each part but the overall design just evolved as I was drawing.

Its inspiring to see art like this just wish i wasent sooo lazy and do some myself.

Thanks, These latest pics were done in an hour each. I've only spent about 10 hours total in Illustrator actually drawing. Try the challenge yourself for an hour a day, and I can guarantee results in a week...

Seriously, these are the things that were stopping me from doing it. I am that guy who always has 100 projects on the go, and always looking to start more but never finishing any of them... My first project was finished last year. I turn 30 this year and it was the only thing I ever completed.

I have always had trouble drawing in perspective and 3d. Also I failed my drawing class at uni because my teacher issued a task where we had to draw WITHOUT LINES. Just shaded areas mashed together to make a picture. COULD NOT DO!

Some good tips I've been operating by:A little a day is better than a lot once a weekStop BEFORE you have had enoughSet extreme short term goals, as well as the regular short and long term ones.

Seriously, these are the things that were stopping me from doing it. I am that guy who always has 100 projects on the go, and always looking to start more but never finishing any of them... My first project was finished last year. I turn 30 this year and it was the only thing I ever completed.

I have always had trouble drawing in perspective and 3d. Also I failed my drawing class at uni because my teacher issued a task where we had to draw WITHOUT LINES. Just shaded areas mashed together to make a picture. COULD NOT DO!

Some good tips I've been operating by:A little a day is better than a lot once a weekStop BEFORE you have had enoughSet extreme short term goals, as well as the regular short and long term ones.

Seems to be helping so far.

Aye. The only time I've worked in 3D was in mid-high school, and my teacher loved it. Not that it made any sense... The perspectives were totally out-of-sync, and they more resembled a Lovecraftian 4d-5D object than a coherent 3D shape. That miiiight have to do with my skewed depth-perception due to my shitty eyesight though.

I've always had the same issue. I paint, I sketch, I write poetry, I'm working on a novel, I write lyrics for myself and a friend's band, I play guitar, I play piano, I sing, but I'm always jumping from one thing to the next and rarely ever finish anything.

I think the only major project I ever finished was a symmetry design I created in MS Paint when I was in high school, literally 1 pixel at a time in maximum zoom.

I don't have the finished version on this computer but I think I have an older version somewhere, hold on...

It took me about a year to get that far. 1-3 hours a day, 5-7 days a week. I'm pretty sure I spent the entirety of my Health and Spanish II classes working on that <_< Ahora yo se porque yo no hablo mucho Espanol... XD

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that, my good sir, is epic MSpaintwork.Should just move a few pixels around to make it no longer 100% perfect. Would probably make for mindrape...

I was having an inspiration block, so I invited my house-mate (sci-fi book devourer) to be a "director" while I designed a new ship. He was allowed to suggest things, and had veto power to remove any parts he didn't like(almost total control). Was really good to end up with something that was not at all of my design, but was still my artwork. He was also impressed with the result as he considers himself to have less than zero artistic capabilities.

The first ship we made and a turret. Next task will be to detail this like the engine

Started the detail on the cruiser. Started with the guns of course! Most of the hour was taken prepping the rest of the drawing. Only spent about 20 minutes actually detailing the gun. I'll be working on this until its done or I'm bored of it, so I wont upload the progress until the end.